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Rapidly Rotating Records“Scream Real Loud!” RRR # 1199 9 July 2023
Shelly Lee Alley
Welcome to Glenn Robison’s Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t *not* tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and ’30s.
Do you know who this fellow is? He’s fiddler, composer and bandleader Shelly Lee Alley. For his first birthday segment on the show, you’ll hear three recordings by his late ’30s group Shelly Lee Alley and His Alley Cats, including two of his own compositions. We’ll also be celebrating Harold Dellon’s birthday with three of his songs. All this after I make a c...
2023-07-1059 min
Upper Street Madrid PodcastEpisode 8 Belloc and Burton - two poems.In this episode I compare two poems in the comic/surreal tradition of warning poems for children, one by Hilaire Belloc and one by Tim Burton. For more information about Upper Street's courses and classes, visit https://www.upper-street-madrid.com/
2018-12-0909 minUpper Street Madrid PodcastEpisode 7 - I walk the Line. Phrases where careful actions are represented as careful motionLatest episode of Upper Street Madrid Podcast. For more information about Upper Street's courses and classes, visit www.upper-street-madrid.com
2018-11-1806 minUpper Street Madrid PodcastEpisode Six - Haiku in EnglishHaiku in English - including Kerouac, Ginsberg, Hass and John Cooper Clark. For more information about Upper Street's courses and classes, visit www.upper-street-madrid.com
2018-11-0908 minUpper Street Madrid PodcastEpisode 5 - Words and nonsense, Professor Branestawm, Lewis Carroll and TS EliotWords can mean different things depending on how they are heard, seen or read. Norman Hunter, Lewis Carroll, Shakespeare and TS Eliot provide some examples.
2018-10-2107 minUpper Street Madrid PodcastReflections on the poem 'To Any Reader' by Robert Louis Stevenson.TO ANY READER
As from the house your mother sees
You playing round the garden trees,
So you may see, if you will look
Through the windows of this book,
Another child, far, far away,
And in another garden, play.
But do not think you can at all,
By knocking on the window, call
That child to hear you. He intent
Is all on his play-business bent.
He does not hear; he will not look,
Nor yet be lured out of this book.
For, long ago, the truth to say,
He has grown up and gone away,
And it is...
2018-10-1205 minUpper Street Madrid PodcastEpisode 3 - Poems, songs and topsy-turvy wordsSome thoughts on the relationship poetry and song and a look at how and why expressions like goody-goody, topsy-turvy and hanky-panky are used.
2018-09-2310 minUpper Street Madrid PodcastEpisode 2 - 'The Circuit' by Francisco Jimenez and meanings of the word 'spell'In this week's podcast I'll talk about a short story by Francisco Jimenez, a Mexican American writer. The story is set in the early 1950's and describes the life of a family moving from farm to farm for work in the USA. I'll also be looking at the meanings of the word 'spell.'
2018-09-1608 min
Upper Street Madrid PodcastEpisode 1 - A matter of ABCAn Alphabet refrain and a poem by Julia Alvarez
2018-09-0311 min